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"The
essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly,
strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally.
Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process."
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh |  |
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In
the next 30 years we can destroy our world. With the very same powers — spiritual,
social, scientific — we can evolve our world. Our mission is to serve as catalysts
for a planetary awakening in our lifetime, to take a non-violent path to the next
stage of our evolution.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard |
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I
think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting
as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work
to make social change.
-- Dolores
Huerta | 
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Peace
is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence,
not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than
with saving face.
-- Jesse
Jackson I
preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
-- Jesse
Jackson |
The
trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that
is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the
guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted
idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding
nonviolence.
-- Jesse
Jackson
if
whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people
who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
--
Jesse Jackson
The trouble
is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American
definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of
the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood
coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.
-- Jesse Jackson
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"The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination
and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and
the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth...
-- Petra
Kelly *
In
a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence
- not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in
the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and
inside the war industry - becomes one of the most urgent priorities."
--
Petra Kelly |
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Today’s
world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going
toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is to create hatred
among people and to create fear. I am a believer in nonviolence and I say that
no peace or tranquility will descend upon the people of the world until nonviolence
is practiced, because nonviolence is love and it stirs courage in people.
-- Badshah Khan |
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"...We
have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will
accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination,
we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant
ideal into glowing reality."
--
Coretta Scott King
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"The
nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It
first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives
them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they
did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience
that reconciliation becomes a reality."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
We
must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again
and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with
soul force.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence
is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.
-- Martin Luther King,
Jr.
[nonviolence]
seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence
is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed it is a weapon unique in history, which
cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
"In
any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to
determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct
action."
-- Martin Luther
King, Jr.
"The
principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites
- acquiescence and violence - while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of
both. The nonviolent resister agress with the person who acquisces that one should
not be physically agressive toward his opponent; but he balances the equation
by agreeing with the person of violence that evil must be resisted. He avoids
the nonresistance of the former and the violent resistance of the latter. With
nonviolent resistance, no invidual or group need to submit to any wrong, nor need
anyone resort to violence in order to right a wrong."
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
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Citizens
across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department
of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make
non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm
shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice
and for violence control.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
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